We’re Heading to AutoCon 5 & Bringing the Agents with Us

When

8 – 12 June 2026

Where

Munich, Germany

Venue

The Westin Grand

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What You’ll See Live

What We’re Bringing to AutoCon 5

Two sessions you actually want to be in – one hands-on, one that wraps the whole show.

Hands-On Workshop

From RAG to MCP: New Tools for a New Era in Network Operations

John Capobianco, William Collins & Joksan Flores
AI & DevRel // Itential

When

Mon, June 8 · AM

Track

WS:A2

Closing Keynote

How NetOps Can Embrace AI to Lead Innovation

Chris Wade
Co-Founder & CTO // Itential

When

Fri, June 12 · 9:10

Track

Single Track

LIVE · ALL WEEK · ITENTIAL BOOTH

FlowAI demos, running live. Walk up. Watch it work.

Our booth at AutoCon 5 – also known as the VibeOps Lounge. Real agents, real networks, real conversations.

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⚡ FlowAI in Action

Build & Run FlowAgents

Build agents visually in the FlowAgent Builder or let Claude Code auto-generate from a spec file, either way you’re running a production-ready agent in minutes. See how infrastructure teams are going from intent to automated action without writing everything from scratch.

🔗 Multi-Vendor Orchestration

Bring Any Tool, Orchestrate Every Domain

Already running Ansible, NSO, Terraform, or custom scripts across multiple vendors and domains? Good, keep them. Itential unifies multi-vendor, multi-domain automation into a single orchestration layer, so your team stops context-switching and starts delivering outcomes.

🔄 End-to-End Operations

Full Lifecycle Operations

From provisioning to change management to config and compliance — across every vendor, every domain — see how Itential orchestrates the complete infrastructure lifecycle with agents and APIs working together. One platform. Every stage. Nothing falling through the cracks.

Wednesday Night · After The Sessions

NetBox & Friends Happy Hour

It wouldn’t be an AutoCon without it. Itential is proud to team up with NetBox Labs and the rest of the network automation community for a night of real talk, cold drinks, and the kind of hallway-track conversations that actually move the industry forward.

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When

Wednesday, June 10 · Time TBD

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Where

Location TBD

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What’s On Us

Light bites & drinks

Plus all the network-automation gossip

VibeOps Forum · Community

Between AutoCons, There’s VibeOps

The community for practitioners doing the actual work – automating networks, wiring up agents, and figuring out what production-grade AI ops looks like before there’s a playbook for it.

Founded by John Capobianco. Run by the community. Sponsored by Itential, but never about Itential. It’s where the conversation continues when the conference badges come off.

Join the VibeOps Forum

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Real conversations, no pitches

Live discussions with practitioners who’ve shipped agentic ops to production.

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Hands-on use cases & demos

Capo’s labs, MCP deep dives, and “here’s what we tried last week” threads.

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Community, not customer base

Open to anyone working on the future of network and infra automation.

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First look at what’s coming

Early access to FlowAI, FlowAgents, and FlowMCP releases.

Missed Us In Austin?

The AutoCon 4 Playback – Everything We Shipped & Said

550+ engineers, two sold-out workshops, a FlowAI announcement, and a closing argument on what MCP actually is. If you missed it (or were there and need to catch up), here’s the on-demand cut.

From Manual Firefighting to Agentic Autonomy

Closing Keynote

Greg Freeman · Lumen

From Manual Firefighting to Agentic Autonomy

Lumen’s five-year journey from task automation to 4M+ orchestrated workflows a year + layering AI to trigger deterministic action, safely.

Watch on YouTube →

FlowAI: The Operating Model for AI Infrastructure

FlowAI Launch

Peter Sprygada · Itential

FlowAI: The Operating Model for AI Infrastructure

The on-stage unveiling of FlowAI, Itential’s agentic orchestration layer for infrastructure ops.

Watch on YouTube →

Featured Talk

William Collins · Itential

Is MCP Just an API Abstraction?

William takes on the most-asked question of the year and explains why MCP is a different beast.

Watch on YouTube →

Read the Recaps

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Recap Blog

AutoCon 4: Keeping Automation Weird in Austin

William Collins’s full recap — three themes, two workshops, and the FlowAI moment from the Austin Marriott floor.

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Product Announcement

Introducing FlowAI: Agentic Orchestration for Infrastructure

The full story behind the announcement — what FlowAI is, what it does, and why now.

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Hands-On Demo

Building & Running Your First FlowAgent

Joksan Flores walks through creating an agent in FlowAI — provisioning an AWS VPC, allocating from Infoblox, and notifying Slack, end to end.

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Podcast · Recorded Live

Bringing AI Reasoning to Infrastructure with FlowAI

Peter Sprygada joins Ethan Banks on Packet Pushers Tech Bytes — recorded live from the AutoCon 4 floor in Austin.

Customer Stories · From the AutoCon Stage

Our Customers Don’t Just Use Itential, They Get On Stage & Talk About It

The most credible people to talk about network automation aren’t us, they’re the teams running it in production. Here’s what some of them shared on the AutoCon stage.

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